By PHILIP MWAKIO
Kwale International Sugar Company (Kiscol) plans to issue tenders for construction of design, supply, installation and commissioning of a 3,000 Tonnes of Cane per Day sugar plant with co-generation.
The firm, which was launched by President Kibaki in 2007, has invited tenders, in a paid up International Tender Notice advertisement, for the actual construction of the plant.
The facility is set to produce 3,500 tonnes of sugar and hopes to upgrade its daily production to 5,000 tonnes.
Kiscol is keen on establishing a green field sugarcane estate of 1,500 acres alongside a modern processing complex.
Its core activities include processing sugarcane for production of sugar, ethanol and electricity.
ethanol production
The co-generation plant is expected to be producing 17 MW and 30,000 litres of ethanol a day.
Kiscol is located on the former Ramisi Sugar factory which folded up in 1988 in an area first identified as a prospective place for cane growing in the 1920s.
Kiscol Technical Director Klaas Ooms said already 100 hectares of land for cane nursery is ready and under drip irrigation.
Kiscol is the first cane crusher in the country to adopt the highly mechanised drip irrigation in its seed cane nursery.
"Another 850 hectares is being tendered for and should be ready for implementation in December 2010,'' said Ooms.
He said the plant is expected to be completed and ready for commissioning by August 2012.
President Kibaki and Prime Minister, Raila Odinga have said the Government fully supported the revival bid by Kiscol.
They said the Government will full support the project to improve the standards of living of the people at the Coast.
Source: The Standard | Online Edition
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